But she knew the character, not the woman. Didn’t know her soul or what her favorite emojis are. For all Kristen knew, she turned herself into vapor at the end of filming each day. Where’s the personal connection? She didn’t know know her, you know?

I never saw a rash, although it could have been on my scalp. I didn’t know why I was so sick and kept getting sicker until I ended up in a hospital with a 105 degree fever. I was not healthy for months. Crazy stuff kept happening from the Lyme, one of which was half of my face getting paralyzed (it got better), and it…

1. The CDC does not recognize it as a disease 2. Neither do medical books or journals or whatever 3. It seems very conveniently all- and also non-encompassing, so that it can manifest itself in a number of non-testable ways 4.I am not saying people are not feeling bad, or that they aren’t ill, its just that, as of…

I know a woman who describes herself as a doctor, and her clients as patients, but she’s a naturopath, not a medical doctor. She still sought regular medical treatment for a catastrophic illness, so there’s that, but I stringently avoid asking her opinions on flouride and vaccines because I CANNOT fucking EVEN with…

You can tell that jinni is not a medical doctor, because medical doctors call the people that they treat ‘patients,’ not ‘clients.’

Thanks. It’s been a struggle. I think everyone should be educated on the type of rash that shows up. But it can be treated. It’s a real problem on the east coast where deer are everywhere and in suburban areas they get hit by cars all the time and often just hanging out in your backyard so it’s easy to pick up the…

I’m wondering how many times I need to say the same thing? Chronic after effects of actual bacterial infection by lyme disease are acknowledged and although uncommon, pretty fucking shit. This is a condition known as ‘post infection lyme disease’ (not chronic lyme, which we shall return to). It is one of the reasons…

yeah you really shouldn’t. I got the huge bulls eye mark that comes with it and ignored it not knowing what it was (I was in highschool) and then got sicker and sicker and eventually had to be tutored at home because it wasn’t treated right away. A long period of antibiotics ended it but I still have issues with joint…

Because just being a bit of a crazy bitch isn’t trendy enough?

Real bacterial lyme infection, treated but still symptomatic= post infectious lyme disease. Recognised and acknowledged medically. No there isn’t a treatment, but not for lack of trying (this is also why tick awareness campaigns exist. Avoiding infection in the first place is the only way to guarantee you don’t get…

Yeah I didn’t have any issues with mental health because of Lymes.

Would I be right in guessing you’re not a medical doctor? Because I’m pretty sure medical doctors like to use the correct terms for things. If you had lyme disease and you have been treated, so no longer have the bacteria, but still have symptoms - you have post-infectious lyme disease. Post infectious lyme disease.…

Chronic lyme disease is a made up condition.

I love your explanation of Chronic Lyme asbeing permanent damage from past Lyme disease. It makes a lot of sense to me. I have fibromyalgia, so I empathize with these individuals with this long term condition and know how awful it is to be in pain and be greatly limited. But I think calling the condition ‘permanent…

It’s not. It’s horrible. But it’s also called post-infectious lyme disease (not ‘chronic lyme’), is only experienced by, at worst, 1 in 5 people with diagnosed lyme disease (as in, positive bacterial test) and usually (thankfully) doesn’t go on past 6 months post-antibiotics. Which is not what ‘chronic lyme’ people…

After effects of diagnosed (but diagnosed too late) lyme disease I’d not the same as ‘chronic lyme’ one is a real problem with a known root. One is a disease people have randomly decided they have because they read the description of post-infectious lyme disease and decided they have it. Despite not having lyme…

I felt bad for people who thought they had chronic Lyme disease until I commented on a People magazine article about Yolanda Hadid that comparing Lyme disease to the AIDS epidemic of the early 80s was offensive.

What you are describing is Post-Lyme Syndrome. It’s the manifestation of the damage to the nervous system cause by Lyme after the infection is cleared. Chronic Lymse Disease is a complete other, made up, bogust thing were people believe they have an infection hiding in “biofilms” deep in their bodies only cured by…

Apparently the child molester look turns some people on.

He looks like a child molester in that photo.